Emergency First Aid/AED

Ever thought about learning basic first aid techniques to quickly react during an emergency? 

 

This 8-hour training will allow you to recognize abnormal signs and symptoms that can arise in everyday life, to then apply the necessary emergency measures. 

 

In this course, you will learn, among other things, how to provide the basic treatments to immobilize an injury, how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and how to administer epinephrin with an auto-injector. You will also learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on an adult and on a childand how to efficiently react in a respiratory emergency or a cardiac arrest. 

 

This course can be adapted according to the participants’ needs. 

  

MINIMUM TIME REQUIRED 

  • 8 hours 

 

AWARD VALIDITY 

  • 3 years 

 

COURSE CONTENT 

 

GENERAL ITEMS  

Item 1 - Standard first aid principles 

Item 2 - Legal aspects of an intervention 

Item 5 - Communicating with the EMS 

Item 6 - Anatomy and physiology 

Item 7 - Prehospital assessment 

Item 8 - Primary assessment 

 

RESUSCITATION  

Item 10 - Chain of Survival™ 

Item 11 - Resuscitation techniques – Adult and child 

Item 12 - Airway obstruction – Conscious adult and child 

Item 13 - Airway obstruction – Unconscious adult and child 

Item 14 - Rescue breathing complications or specific situations 

Item 15 - AED operation 

Item 16 - Two-rescuer CPR and AED 

 

MEDICAL PROBLEMS  

Item 17 - Shock / fainting 

Item 19a - Cardiovascular emergencies 

Item 19b - Respiratory emergencies 

 

TRAUMAS 

Item 21 - Bleeding 

 

OTHER ITEMS   

Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux: Administrating epinephrine for acute anaphylactic type allergic reactions: People known to be allergic – 1.5 hour.